Question

What is the difference between a negitive sign and a subtraction sign?

Answer 1

nothing at all really

Answer 2

-4 means the opposite of 4

+(-4) means to add the opposite of 4

-4 means to add the opposite of 4 .... or subtract; same thing

Answer 3

5-4 means 5+(-4) means -(-5)+(-4) means ....

Answer 4

okay i get it

Answer 5

So the floor just below the lobby, Lower Level One, can I call it floor Negative One?

Answer 6

you can, the mailroom wont mind

Answer 7

Ah, you're giving away your age. They don't have mailrooms anymore. They send a memo by email.

Answer 8

The floor one level below floor 1 can be minus one for laymen, but it would be zero for mathematicians.

Answer 9

Goodness, I would have gotten that one wrong.